the Spanish unions revoke the next strike in the ports, but the situation remains stiff



The Spanish unions have to revoke strike in the national ports indetto for the 6 and 8 March next, days of protest against the regal bill in order to reform the harbour labor law that is adopted by the government with the attempt of giving I keep on the sentence of the Law court of the EU that has established non-compliance of the Spanish legislation in matter to that European. The ulterior days of arrest warrant of the job on the docks would have joined to those which in the past weeks have strongly slowed down the activity of import-export and that they have induced the main economic organizations launch appeals in order to find an agreement that allows a return with the normal activity in the ports.

The revocation of strike is decided as a result of the announcement of the Socialist Party Worker Spagnolo who will vote against I decree governmental if some understanding between the parts will not be reached. The PSOE, moreover, has invited the unions to suspend strike in order to continue the negotiations: "we ask the parts - Pedro Saura has explained, spokesman for the economic field of the PSOE - to be confronted actively, to the unions to suspend strike for responsibility sense and to the government to take part on the issue and to contribute to the prosecuzione of it negotiate. We ask the harbour workers - it has specified Saura - to revoke strike above all because it has effects many negatives on the economic activities and the Spanish economy, and ask the government who active directly so that as soon as possible an agreement between all is reached the parts".

Saura has specified that the Socialist Party does not intend to approve of this bill: "if not there is some agreement between the parts to support it, it is that features of a regal bill or of a bill - has confirmed - in any case the Socialist Group will not be abstained, but will vote against".

Antolín Goya, general coordinator of Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores of the Sea, has found that with "the opposition of the PSOE to the approval of regal approved of bill 4/2017 from the government a new opportunity for the dialogue is opened and it negotiate among other things asked - has emphasized - also from the other political groups". Specifying that, besides Coordinatora, also other labor organizations UGT, CCOO, CIG and Cgt are in agreement in revoking strike of the next week, Goya has evidenced that this has the attempt "to encourage the Ministry of the economic Development to abandon own position of closing and to convene it negotiate real through the activation of a dialogue on the modification of the bill introduced from the government for its approval".

Goya has restated that "the norms proposed currently from the government cancel every possibility of an agreement with the enterprises, offering to the financial groups and the international speculators, that they are the greater shareholders and owners of the terminals in all the Spanish ports, the possibility to get rid of their workers to expenses of the Treasury, precarizzando the job and the conditions of job".

The representative of the Coordinadora union has denounced that up to now "in reality not it has been some step ahead in it negotiate with companies", not even - she has specified - with the technical reunion held Wednesday. "The companies - Goya has asserted - are not engaged to maintain the places of work of the their current harbour workers neither are engaged to supply to the unions and the president of the Consejo Económico y Social the data in order to justify the presumed excess of staff in every port".

Emphasizing that "it cannot be continued to attribute to the sentence of the Law court of the European Union the lay-off of the harbour workers, than instead it is a political decision of the Puertos of the Estado (the governmental agency that administers the ports, ndr) ratified from the minister to the economic Development, Guya has concluded rimarcando that with this decision to suspend 8 the 6 strike of and March "the workers demonstrate their will of dialogue that we hope can be exchanged again from the Ministry and datoriale organization ANESCO".

The main datoriale association that represents the Spanish harbour enterprises has taken with pliers the affirmation of the determination of the unions to reach an agreement. The Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras y Consignatarias de Buques (ANESCO) has turned an appeal "to the responsibility of the unions so that the announcement of the revocation of strike is definitive and that the negotiations can begin to give yield". Evidencing the damages that the actions of protest have already caused to the economic activities and "the infallible damage already provoked from the second consecutive threat of strike in the course of the last month", that they have hit "is the image that the competitiveness of the Spanish ports", the ANESCO has criticized also the continuous actions of pressure put into effect by various weeks in some terminals and ports through - it has specified the association - "slow down of the rhythms of job and illegal strikes". Moreover the ANESCO has appealed "to the government and all the political parties so that they as soon as possible guarantee the certainty of the right in a field that is key for the entire national economy".

In its appeal the ANESCO has emphasized that the protests in the ports have already determined the important shunting line flows of traffic from the national ports of call towards ports foreign countries. Between these cargo volumes there are those of the company of navigation Maersk Line of group A.P. Møller-Mærsk, Danish group that through branch Dutch APM Terminals manages harbour terminals in the primary Spanish ports of Algeciras, Barcelona, Castellon, Gijón and Valencia. Maersk Line, in forecast of the days of strike - then revoked - indette for the 6 and 8 March next, but also for the fixed actions of protest for next days 13, 15, 17, 20, 22 and 24 of freedom of expression, has announced a reduction of the activity on the port of Algeciras, that hub harbour of transhipment is main of the group for the traffics with Europe, and I use it of other European and Mediterranean ports to the aim to assure to the customers the respect of the tempistiche of delivery.